Hardware Engineer

Research, design, develop, or test computer or computer-related equipment for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use. May supervise the manufacturing and installation of computer or computer-related equipment and components.

Hardware Engineer Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Hardware Engineer to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with colleagues in software and mechanical team to ensure product designs are optimised for use and volume production;
  • Produce the required documentation associated with new designs;
  • Working alongside the Hardware Lead to design and develop new products;
  • Working in multi-disciplinary teams to create world leading solutions;
  • Appropriate documentation of the design to allow long term support of the product;
  • Designing new products, leading the process through the full product lifecycle;
  • Identify design changes for future versions of the Dhalion system;
  • Providing technical solutions as and when required;
  • Working directly with the CTO to release this product with clients (Premier League teams );
  • Developing prototypes of designs where appropriate;
  • Circuit design, analysis and documentation;
  • Implementing improvements and customer specific modifications to existing or new products;
  • Design, build and iterate the Dhalion system based on identified requirements;
  • Providing technical support to both customers and other relevant departments within the organisation;
  • Design verification and validation testing.

Requirements:

  • Experience of ABB Control Systems;
  • Experience with standard lab equipment (i.e oscilloscopes or spectrum analysers) would be highly beneficial;
  • Experience of hardware integration, testing, measurement, debug and verification;
  • Experience with microcontrollers and/or embedded application processors/SoCs;
  • Experienced in the Pacis and/or DS Agile Control System;
  • Schematic capture and layout for complex high speed mixed signal custom PCBs;
  • Development of embedded firmware in C or C++
  • Good experience in the use of schematic capture / PCB design software e.g. Auto Desk Eagle; and of FPGA development tools, e.g. Quartus;
  • Experience with COTS cabinets, cabinet/rack/unit design, wiring and wiring schedules, power distribution etc;
  • Experience of control systems panel design;
  • Understanding of firmware and software interactions with microcontroller-based designs;
  • At least, educated to HND level in an Electrical Engineering discipline;
  • Switch mode Power Supply (SMPS) design;
  • Digital Signal Processing and high speed memory interfaces;
  • Experience in using JIRA and Confluence development toolsets.